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  2. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    GRUB 2, elilo and systemd-boot serve as conventional, full-fledged standalone UEFI boot managers (a.k.a. bootloader managers) for Linux. Once loaded by a UEFI firmware, they can access and boot kernel images from all devices, partitions and file systems they support, without being limited to the EFI system partition.

  3. Cinnamon (desktop environment) - Wikipedia

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    Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, which was originally based on GNOME 3, but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions. The development of Cinnamon began by the Linux Mint team as the result of the April 2011 release of GNOME 3, in which the conventional desktop ...

  4. Mir (software) - Wikipedia

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    Mir is a computer display server and, recently, a Wayland compositor for the Linux operating system that is under development by Canonical Ltd. It was planned to replace the currently used X Window System for Ubuntu; [3] [4] [5] however, the plan changed and Mutter was adopted as part of GNOME Shell.

  5. udev - Wikipedia

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    udev (userspace /dev) is a device manager for the Linux kernel.As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the /dev directory. At the same time, udev also handles all user space events raised when hardware devices are added into the system or removed from it, including firmware loading as required by certain devices.

  6. Comparison of disk encryption software - Wikipedia

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    Scramdisk 4 Linux Hans-Ulrich Juettner 2005-08-06 [30] GPL: No SecuBox Aiko Solutions 2007-02-19 Proprietary: Yes SECUDE Secure Notebook SECUDE 2003 Proprietary: Yes Seqrite Encryption Manager Quick Heal Technologies Ltd. 2017 Proprietary: Yes Sentry 2020: SoftWinter 1998 [31] Proprietary: No Softraid / RAID C OpenBSD 2007-11-01 [32] BSD: Yes ...

  7. DNS spoofing - Wikipedia

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    DNS spoofing, also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, is a form of computer security hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into the DNS resolver's cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect result record, e.g. an IP address. This results in traffic being diverted to any computer that the attacker chooses.

  8. Linux-VServer - Wikipedia

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    It is not related to the Linux Virtual Server project, which implements network load balancing. Linux-VServer is a jail mechanism in that it can be used to securely partition resources on a computer system (such as the file system , CPU time, network addresses and memory) in such a way that processes cannot mount a denial-of-service attack on ...

  9. ZAP (software) - Wikipedia

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    ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is a dynamic application security testing tool published under the Apache License.When used as a proxy server it allows the user to manipulate all of the traffic that passes through it, including HTTPS encrypted traffic.